Combination-garment.



PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

C. W. BARTRUM. COMBINATION GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26,1906.

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C. W. BARTRUM. COMBINATION GARMENT APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26,1906.

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CHARLES W. BARTRUM, oE NEWBURZGH-INEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T SWEET,

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'- Specification of lietters Patent.

Patented tra '7, 1907.

Application filed Jmie26,19h6. serial Nb. 323,603.

To all whom; it midy'c'bncern: I I

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. BAR- TRUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newburgh, inthe county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combination-Garment, "of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Medical, state and other authorities are becoming more and more insistent, =inthe interests of public health, upon the purity of the milk supply, and milk producers are appreciating the value and importance of cleanliness and sanitation in their work, and among the agencies employed in this behalf is the sterilization not only of the milking implements and accessories, but also the garments used by the milkers. Clothing is a fertile vehicle for carrying contagion and infection, and hence, sterilized dairy suits have been introduced with marked beneficial results. The best dairy practice under these sanitary conditions, indicates the necessity fora suit wholly closed in front from neck to feet, anf covering the arms down to the hands, nd wholly inclosing the legs of the wearer, and yet of a construction that will permit freedom of movement of the wearer.

In orde'rto meet these requirements, the present invention comprises a combination garment, or union suit, havin a shirt or bodyportion open at the neck in the back, but otherwise wholly closed, and having sleeves extending to the hands, and leg portions open at the back and adapted to; be closed around the legs by buttons or other fastenings, and open at the seat below ithe shirt, and having the fork-points at the crotch extended rearwardly so that the garment shall conform to the person 'of the In the preferred construction a combination garment, having the characteristics deand to the fork-points, so as to support the fork-points; and twoback sections for-the shirt united to the side and shoulder edges of the front sect-ions and joined at the back save for aneck opening, and sleeves inserted in the shirt. The free edges of the front and back sections of thelegs are faced, and proand'the left open and the nedk vided with fastening means. A suit thus constructed is put on over the head, from the back, the open seat permitting this mode of putting on the suit. Theshirt is then fas-' -tened at the neck behind, and then the leg sections fastened around the limbs of the wearer, so that there'is no port-ion of the wearers clothing exposed in front, and the legs are wholly inclosed and the seat alone exposed; but, inasmuch as dairy operations are carried on in front'of theperson, this exposure of the seat is immaterial, whileat the same time it .gives the wearer great freedom of movement. The legs are fully covered, so that the dairyman-can support the pail between his knees, as' usual, while milking. The dairyman,-tl1erefore, is fully protected, and his implements are also protected from contact with his clothing. I v

Inthe accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several res of which like parts are similarly designated,

Figure 1 is a front view, representing a man clothed with the garment. Fig. 2 is a rear view of same. Fig.3 is a rear perspective being closed opening unview of the suit, the right le fastened. Fig. 4 is a plan view ofthe pat-- tern of the front section and back leg section,

showing also, in dotted lines, the back section of the leg laid over on the front section in position forsewing. Fig. 5 is a top plan view'of the crotch construction.

' The neck and shoulder portion 1, the front body portion -2,the sleeve head 3, and the front leg portion 4, are all made in one piece, and constitute what is herein referred to as the front section.. This front section on the balance line, which is approximately across thethighs of the wearer, has the rearwardly extending fork-point 5 on the inner edge and the point 6 on the outer edge. The outer edge 7 of the bod portion has attached to-it one edge of the ack section 8 of the shirt, and the outer edge 9 of the leg portion has fastening mediums a plied to it.

The back section 10 of the leg portion, has

the point 11, and the edge 12 of this back The of the shirt are united in front by a seam 15,

uniting the edges 16 of the body portion, and

extending from the neck down thefront and into the crotch, incli'lding thefork-points 5 "and 11, and the back sections 8 of the shirt are left' open at 17 so that the garment may be put on over the head, and these back sections are united below' this neck-opening at 18, with the skirt terminating at 19 about or justbelow: the waist-line of the wearer. Sleeves 20 are inserted in the sleeve-heads formed by the front and back sections.

The arment'is finished with a neck band 21 and cuffs 22, and suitable fastenings, such as buttonholes 23 and detachable buttons 24 as shown, are provided at all opening's.

It is very essential, especially for dairy purposes, that the garment should fit the person in the crotch and about the upper portions of. the legs, so as not only to cover all clothing worn beneath, but also to protect the wearer and his utensils, and more especially the milk-pail supported between his knees, and this is accomplished by extending rately, with openlegs, and capable of cover the fork-points as shown.

The seam 15 is, practically cbntinuous from the neck down the 'front, into the crotch and back into the seat, and as shown in Fi 2, the seam uniting the edges 1-3v of the 'bac sections of the legs slopes upwardly so as-to hold up the garment at the rear. This support of the garment is assisted by the upper fastening near the thighs.

The edges 25 of the back leg sections 10 are.

faced and span across the seatless portion of the garment. These edges are fastened to the front sections, and hence theyserve to support the upwardly sloping rearwardly projecting fork-points, as already indicated.

The relative proportions of the wide front sections and the narrow back sections in'the legs resultin bringing their fastening edges toward the outside and slightly rearward of the legs, and hence the fastening and the unfastening of the leg sections is facilitated.

While I have described the. invention'as specially useful in dairy Work, it is to be understood that I do notthereby limit its applicability, since it will be found equally useful in laboratory, hospital, clinical and other work. I

The garment is designed to be made of fabric that may be washed and sterilized, and

the fastenings are such as may be readily removed if desired.

I am aware that combination outer suits of many designs, open in front, closed in front, fitting the person more or less accumg those parts of the person most exposed in performing ones occupatio n, are old, but I am not aware of any prior garment having garment is made up of duplicates "of, the parts described, and the front sections 2 the constituentparts herein described and claimed. 7 v p i What I claim is:

1. A combination garment, having a shirt and trousers in one, wholly closed in front,

the shirt open at the neck only in the back and terminating at the waist-line at the back,

and the trousers without seat portion and having the legs fitted to the crotch and provided with side 0 enings, and means to fasten the entire ed es of said openings and thereby wholly inc ose the wearers legs.

2. A combination garment, having a shirt and. trousers in one, wholly closed in front, the shirt having sleeves, and opened at the neck only, and provided with a placket and terminating at the waist-line at the back, and the trousers without seat portion having the legs and spanning the egs at-the rear about the crotch line, and having openings at the outer sidesfrom bottoms to crotch line, and means to se' arably fasten the 'en an united to the inner edges of the front sections, the entire outer edges of the front and.

rear leg sections meeting at the outersides of the legs and having separable fastening mediums.

4. A combination I garment, composed of 7 two like front sectionslcut to form the neck rovided with fork-points fitted to. the crotch of the garment tire edges of said opemngs to thereby wholly" I ig o portion, the body portion,,and about twothirds'of the leg portions, and seamed down the front'and into the crotch, two body back sections seamed to the front sections and to each other save for a neck opening and terminating at the waistline, sleeves in the body portion, and twonarr'owback sections for. the legs without seat portions seamed to the front sections in the crotch and in line,

with the front seam and also seamed to the inner edges of the leg portions of the front sections, said 'frontde'gandback leg sections having free edges at the-sides of thelegs 320 provided with means for temporarily fastening them together throughout their length pbout and so asl'to wholly inclose a wearers In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of June, A. D. 1906. CHARLES W. BARTRUM. Witnesses:

F. H. Kn'ronm,

0. C. BARNETT. 

